Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade above the door within an approximately rectangular area
(w:
0.85 x h:
0.42) whose surface is in
poor condition; the cutter has avoided holes in the stone.
Letters: Second-third century: lines 1-4, 0.035-0.04;l.5, 0.05;superscript bars above the abbreviation in line 1, the praenomen and
possibly the nomen in line 2 and the figure in line 3.
Date: Mid second to mid third century CE
Findspot:
Taucheira:
Quarry East IX, West wall; first recorded in 1825.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
Interpretive
( vac. 2) D(is) M(anibus) ( vac. 2)
M(arcus) Aur(elius) Apol( vac. 2)lo( vac. 1)nius
uet(eranus) leg(ionis) II Ad(iutricis) ex d[oc(tore)]
( vac. 1) fabrica( vac. 2)e sep(ulcrum) ui<u>us
5 ( vac. 1) sibi et s[u( vac. 2)]is ( vac. 1)
( vac. 1) ( vac. 1) fạ( vac. 1)c(iendum) ( vac. 1) [ ( vac. 2)] ((leaf)) cur(auit)
Diplomatic
DM
MAURAPOL LO NIUS
UETLEGIIADEXD[..]
FABRICA ESEPUIUS
5 SIBIETS[...]IS
F. C [..] ❦ CUR
Apparatus
1: D Pacho omitted by Pacho, supplied by CIL 2: M URAP OI ION Pacho, 1827; M. [A]ur Apo[ll]on[io] CIL 3: VETIEC .\\ A C · EX Pacho, 1827; vet. [l]eg. XV. Ap. ex CIL 4: ABRICA E SEP.VIVS Pacho, 1827; [f]abricae s(ib) vi[v]us CIL
English translation
Translation by: Editors
To the gods of the dead. M(arcus) Aur(elius) Apollonius, veteran of the Second Legion Adiutrix, instructor for the arms factory,
had this tomb built for himself and his household in his life-time.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827 LXXXV whence CIL, 6, Rossberg, 1876, 57, on which see also Applebaum, 1951, 182; republished Reynolds, 1977-1978, 1 whence AE 1982.916, EDH 002738.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXXXV)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds, VIII.1.34, NS.IX.34)
Fig. 3. Face (Reynolds, Tocra IV.3.24, NS.V.24)